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Web Hosting Glossary
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WAIS
(Wide Area Information Servers) -- A
commercial software package that allows the
indexing of huge quantities of information,
and then making those indices searchable
across networks such as the
Internet. A prominent feature of WAIS is
that the search results are ranked (scored)
according to how relevant the hits are, and
that subsequent searches can find more stuff
like that last batch and thus refine the
search process.
WAN
(Wide Area Network) -- Any internet
or network that covers an area larger
than a single building or campus.
Web
See: WWW
Whois
Most registries maintain a database of
domain names and their associated contact
information. Users can query these databases
through a program called Whois.
WWW
(World Wide Web) -- Two meanings - First,
loosely used: the whole constellation of
resources that can be accessed using
Gopher, FTP, HTTP, telnet, USENET, WAIS
and some other tools. Second, the universe
of hypertext servers (HTTP servers)
which are the servers that allow text,
graphics, sound files, etc. to be mixed
together.
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